Catalogue description Captured ship: De Juffrouw Johanna (master Joachim Pein) [second capture]. History: a...

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Details of HCA 32/125/17
Reference: HCA 32/125/17
Description:

Captured ship: De Juffrouw Johanna (master Joachim Pein) [second capture].

History: a Hamburg merchant ship (130 tons, 10 men, 2 boys and 1 passenger), bound from Cadiz to Hamburg, laden with wine, oil, indigo, jollop, drugs, raisins, olives, cochineal, lemon peel and 8 sheep; taken on 3/14 May 1748 near Beachy Head by the privateer Amazon (Gilbert Chain commanding), and brought into Dover.

Documents:-

Court Papers:

  • [CP 1-CP 5]: standing interrogatories, three examinations, commissioners' affidavit;
  • [CP 6]: attestation and claim of the master, May 1748;
  • [CP 7-CP 17]: 11 sets of attestations, affidavits and translations taken and sealed by the ruling authorities of Nurnberg, lower Austria, Hamburg, Berlin, Altona and Geneva, between May 1748 and July 1748, and brought into court in July 1748;
  • [CP 18-CP 20]: attestation as to papers, and abstract and translation of the 90 ship's papers [all of these papers were restored].

[Decision: restored as neutral, 28 July 1748]

Note: Extra information from HCA 30/775/4
Date: 1747
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English, French and Greek
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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